Seminar (Dept. of Organization and Human Resources)

Theme：Perceived Social Undermining Keeps Entrepreneurs Up at Night and Disengaged the Next Day: The Mediating Role of Sleep Quality and the Buffering Role of Trait Resilience

Speaker：Zhuyi Li (National University of Singapore)

Time：2021-11-10 14:00

Address：Tencent Meeting、Room 1008, Mingde Business Building

Language：Chinese/English

Venue: Room 1008, Mingde Business Building

Tencent Meeting https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/xX7uZgJG594L

Meeting ID：498 385 181

Password：1110

ABSTRACT：

Entrepreneurs work in a novel and uncertain environment. This environment can lead to disagreements and conflicts over how to develop, grow, and run a business venture, thus triggering negative social interactions. This research sheds light on the role of destructive interpersonal relationships in entrepreneurs’ work engagement by examining daily perceived social undermining from work partners, and how and when this perceived undermining affects entrepreneurs’ work engagement the following day. Building on a resource-based self-regulation perspective, we build a theoretical model of the spiral process of self-regulation impairment in which the entrepreneur’s perceived social undermining first disrupts sleep quality at night, which then results in low work engagement the next day. We further examine trait resilience as a self-regulation capacity that buffers this process. We test the theoretical model in a diary study based on daily surveys over 10 workdays for 77 entrepreneurs. The results largely support our hypotheses and indicate that trait resilience is more important for less experienced entrepreneurs. Our study contributes to research on how entrepreneurs’ interpersonal relationships—particularly destructive ones—affect entrepreneurial well-being.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY：

Zhuyi Li (Angelina) received her Ph.D degree from Industrial Systems Engineering and Management (Technology Management) at National University of Singapore, with a bachelor degree in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics) from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and a master degree from Columbia University. Before pursuing Ph.D, Angelina spent one year in investment banking, in a full-time position, and had several internships before in well-known technology and consulting companies. She also has an experience in entrepreneurship through which she gained some start-up operating skills. Angelina’s research interests center around the interaction of well-being, recovery, venture performance and creativity, as well as big data.